VIP Chapter 524: Zeroth Heaven
Zeroth Heaven, Floor 225.
“You’re just a few steps away from that paper castle of yours, and now my arrows can hit it with ease…”
Grace’s bowstring was drawn to its maximum.
She aimed at the “castle” behind Liya, which was desperately trying to protect the entrance.
The castle had also turned black and white.
The castle, which already looked like it was made of paper, now looked even less resistant in Liya’s eyes, as if it were entirely constructed from old newspapers.
“I still have some ammunition, but it’s too difficult to defend with just one person…”
Liya panted heavily.
She thought she would no longer feel parched from excessive use of her magic circuits.
Now, it seemed she just hadn’t encountered such a critical situation before.
She should have brought more water to fight if she had known.
“Alright, my ‘dislike’ for witches is only moderate, not enough to kill. And killing a person, not a monster, makes me a bit nauseous.”
Grace seemed to want to show a little of the rumored “leniency” of elves, and the drawn bow did not release.
“As long as you scurry away with your hat in your hand, I won’t do anything.”
Then, with what she considered “mercy,” she offered Liya a “condition.”
“Aren’t you still quite far from that last door? So confident?”
Liya smiled and once again raised her heavy, pure metal staff.
She had no intention of fleeing.
“You, an elf without a trace of elven ‘nobility,’ want to imitate the innocence of elves? Then I, a true witch, how could I not fulfill a witch’s habit and fight to the end!?”
“Why? Everything here has turned black and white. You should understand that Treya is not far from death, right?”
“Turning black and white means her death? What kind of twisted logic is that?”
“Since the witch doesn’t think so, then I’ll continue…”
*Bang.*
A crisp sound.
Grace’s arrow tip aimed at the entire castle behind Liya, with frost blooming at the tail of her arrow.
However, the moment the arrow was loosed, in her vision, the originally empty castle…
seemed to be glowing.
The light was different from the flames in Liya’s hand. It was a purer light, yet seemingly closer to the “sun.”
Of course…
The heat was also different from Liya’s.
It wasn’t “pure” heat, but rather a “purification” achieved through some of the Dungeon’s deepest powers.
“Hmm?”
Even Liya’s magic halted.
Because…
She felt something “warm” enveloping her from behind, and this light shone fiercely on the arrow shot towards her.
All the ice arrows that touched this light gradually melted as they flew, not even a drop of water remaining.
“What’s underfoot…”
Liya looked down. She saw the black and white, the grass that was pockmarked by her attacks. It didn’t just churn with the wind, but seemed to be covered with new sprouts…
radiating an enviable vitality.
“Treya, what… what did she do?”
Liya looked at the castle.
The castle, which had been riddled with countless arrows, was now completely repaired and looked brand new.
More importantly…
It was no longer empty. With Liya’s eyes, she could see more and more small figures.
They were not demons.
“Huh? What… What’s going on?”
“No… Impossible, how did my arrow melt just now?! And it didn’t hit anything?!”
“Invader detected, attack! Attack!”
“Miss Witch! You can come back and rest properly!”
“It’s okay if you want to stay there, it won’t harm you!”
“?”
Liya saw…
The ones speaking to her in an exceptionally “cute” tone were all small, with fair skin as white as any elf she had ever seen…
with cute little wings on their backs…
“Angels?”
The moment Liya said the word, the castle became the true “Dungeon’s defense.”
On the castle, one crossbow turret after another was properly set up.
The turrets aimed at Grace and the others, who no longer dared to advance.
“Something’s wrong, Shield… Shield Saint… Quickly…”
But she didn’t have time to finish her command.
Grace had just turned her head when she felt a strong light sweep past from behind her.
The elf, who was extremely confident in her ice attribute, felt at this moment that her ice was completely unable to resist the light.
As she squinted, unable to even see Liya in the sky clearly, she seemed to catch a glimpse of something in this light…
It was the non-existent past from the day she saw an adventurer’s ID on the street in Entak while studying abroad, and she had just smiled and walked past without picking it up—
Grace, who had been shouting just moments ago, melted into the light.
Even the two Shield Saints, whom she herself could barely attack, could not withstand such an attack and directly melted into the light.
“This… This is the offensive power a Dungeon’s defense should have…”
Liya now guessed that Treya had “succeeded.”
And…
“This doesn’t feel like the power of a ‘demon.’ So dungeons themselves can be changed? No… In all these years, this is also the first time I’ve heard a story about a dungeon’s authority changing…”
She suddenly felt something brush past in the sky.
Raising her head, like feathers falling as birds fly with all their might in the bright, sunny sky, pure white feathers slowly descended.
“Not demons, but… angels?”
***
At this moment, the Dungeon, initially corrupted into black and white by the first demon, was being “swept” layer by layer by Treya.
Accompanied by falling feathers, wherever Treya passed, layers of colorful waves unfolded, turning it into color.
This wasn’t as simple as “turning colorful”; it was a complete renovation of the entire Dungeon, giving it a brand new appearance.
“Now, the demon’s power no longer exists. The entire Dungeon should be… in my likeness.”
“If I cannot obtain everything, then I will change it, make it into a form that conforms to my ‘desires’.”
“…I am that greedy, Will.”
However, the newly appointed Dungeon Empress did not have much time to appreciate her “achievements.”
Treya, who now bore a pair of wings symbolizing “angels” and had completely shaped this place into her desired form…
The thing she wanted to do most now was to reach the side of the one she loved.
And then, with all she had accomplished, to tell him—
that she had felt his love.
that she finally understood he thought of her even from afar.
that she completely understood what way to express this feeling.
Just as now, it was…
time to enjoy such a beautiful world with him.
“Will, do you see? This is the Zeroth Heaven, personally crafted for you.”
“The Zeroth Heaven is born here. VIP Pushed it into the ball machine, seven died, Wu Jiu Shi Jiu, Jiu Ba.”
